This is a hub for the announced and/or putative side events at the 2018 NSC. Please post if you have any more information about these side events (a main thread, for instance), or believe that I'm missing one:

Just a subtle bump that the OP has been updated to show that FILM (Friday), Historature (Saturday), Soundtrack (Saturday) events are confirmed running, with links. Will continue to update if more come.

Raynor Kuang
quizdb.org
Harvard 2017, TJHSST 2013
I wrote GRAPHIC and FILM

Will the QANTA match be a large exhibition event? I'm concerned about it drawing an audience away from my tournament and others'. If there's no way to avoid the conflict, it may just be wise for me to cancel my event.

How much interest is there in Let's Remember Some Guys on Saturday night? It'd be a free shootout likely in someone's hotel room. I think we could fit in some packets after Historature and SOUNDTRACK. Let me know if you are down to Remember some guys.

Harris Bunker
Grosse Pointe North High School '15
Michigan State University 2015-

An unimportant (but important to me...) side-note is that Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final is in DC on Saturday night, so I'll probably trek out to a bar in RTC to go watch it, if anyone would like to join, or even host a viewing in the NSC hotel bar.

Raynor Kuang
quizdb.org
Harvard 2017, TJHSST 2013
I wrote GRAPHIC and FILM

I will be organizing a Friday Night (after David Riley) playtest of Max and Friends Wet N' Wild Summer Fun Packet(s), a guerrilla set written by moderators of ILQBM. We will likely have about 40/40 or 50/50 of total content ready for play.

The Hyatt Regency Reston will be a World Quizzing Championship venue on Saturday at 8:00 PM US EST (Room TBD). This is not a buzzer quiz event. It is a written test of 240 questions split into 8 categories of 30 held over 2 hours. Think you can beat No. 1 quizzer in the world, Kevin Ashman? Give it a try. Lauren Onel will be the proctor. I will not be at PACE but contact Jakob Myers for more details.

Beck Duggleby
University of Texas at Dallas (202x)
Parish Episcopal School (2015)

UlyssesInvictus wrote:An unimportant (but important to me...) side-note is that Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final is in DC on Saturday night, so I'll probably trek out to a bar in RTC to go watch it, if anyone would like to join, or even host a viewing in the NSC hotel bar.

I would like to add another note about this. Wales and South Africa are playing a rugby test at RFK starting at 5 P.M. Their fans will absolutely flood the bars in D.C. once the match ends a little after 7. As long as you stay near Reston like Raynor mentions you shouldn't have a problem, but if you head downtown to watch Caps-Vegas outside Capital One Arena be prepared to see some extremely intoxicated fans clad in red and green making quite the raucous.

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:Will the QANTA match be a large exhibition event? I'm concerned about it drawing an audience away from my tournament and others'. If there's no way to avoid the conflict, it may just be wise for me to cancel my event.

I don't know how many people will actually show up. At HSNCT, it was cross-scheduled with a fair number of side events (mostly HS folks showed up). That said, it's also pretty short (40-ish minutes), so it's possible to coexist.

Progcon wrote:A couple of people have expressed interest in Remembering some Guys, but I'd like to hear from some more people going to PACE. Let me know if want to play the packets as a shootout on Saturday night.

Progcon wrote:We are reading the Guys the tossups in Living Room of the hotel as a shootout. All are free to join.

This happened. We didn't keep stats but I feel like we remembered a lot of guys--including some I, unsurprisingly, didn't remember myself--over the course of six packets. Everyone remembered some definite guys and I think we had a lot of fun.

Is there any interest in reading some of the left over packets over Discord or something? I thought this set was really fun to play in person, but Discord could be cool too if we had voice.

Harris Bunker
Grosse Pointe North High School '15
Michigan State University 2015-